1st Jan The staff of the USASenate Internal Security Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee prepares a memo about John Lennon's involvement with such radicals as Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman and Rennie Davis
4th Feb In a secret memo, Senator Strom Thurmond suggests to AttorneyGeneral John Mitchell that John Lennon, whom the government suspects of consorting with "known radicals," be deported